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Think Tank VI
Ecotourism and Environmental Education: Opportunities ...
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152730 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Ecotourism, which typically involves nature-based tourism, plays an increasing role in today's environmental management. As environmental conservation has, in many cases, suffered from a limited budget, funding ecotourism is perceived as a w...
Author: Aphirom Promchanya
Year: 2006
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Think Tank VIII
Enhancing the Quality of Life through Cultural Events:...
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103896 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The Wadden Sea Festival in Denmark is based on the idea of integrating the coastal environment in the presentation of contemporary art. Specifically, unique tidal differences are utilized to stage a range of performances. The Wadden Sea Fest...
Author: Janne J. Liburd & Anja Hergesell
Year: 2008
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203 |
Think Tank VI
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Catalan hospita...
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75757 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The practices of CSR have attracted the attention of the investigators, who have prepared a great diversity of theories and the international organisms, which have done recommendations, so that the companies have added them in their strategi...
Author: Ramon Palau
Year: 2006
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202 |
Think Tank VIII
Moving from Destination Marketing to Destination Manag...
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70628 | Oct 13, 2013 |
This paper provides a case study of how a tourism organisation has interpreted the change from a ‘marketing’ to a ‘management’ approach in destination development. It begins by looking at what the literature has said about destination manag...
Author: David Foster
Year: 2008
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201 |
Think Tank VII
Branding Sustainability: Taking 'The Natural Step' in ...
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63862 | Oct 13, 2013 |
Translation of the concept of sustainability into practice is fraught with problems. While policy advances in all sectors of the economy have made steps in the right direction the lack of clarity in defining what is meant by 'sustainability...
Author: Alison Gill & Peter Williams
Year: 2007
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200 |
Think Tank XIV
Tropical Communities as Resources for Tourism or Touri...
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48609 | Jun 26, 2014 |
The purpose of this paper is to review the barriers to sustainable tourism development faced by rural and developing regions and to explore the notion of tourism and its potential contribution to community well-being, with a focus on Flora’s...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo & Anna Blackman
Year: 2014
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199 |
Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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40822 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Few recent events which disrupted global tourism and especially tourism mobility, match the impact of the volcanic ash clouds generated from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 and the Chilean volcano Puyehue in 20...
Author: David Beirman
Year: 2012
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198 |
Think Tank VI
Ethical Issues in Collaboration in the Aviation Industry
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39948 | Oct 13, 2013 |
The aviation industry is a critical element of any tourism system, and has several secondary effects – a source of employment and foreign exchange earnings. A ‘national carrier’ is also a symbol of the country, a source of pride amongst the ...
Author: Ravi Ravinder
Year: 2006
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197 |
Think Tank XII
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...
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35437 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ...
Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Runner Up
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196 |
Think Tank XII
Barriers and Benefits to Professional Development: Per...
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34123 | Nov 06, 2013 |
This paper builds upon the body of literature on tourism mobilities by considering supply-side perspectives as it relates to workforce planning and preparation. Research into tourism destination competitiveness has suggested that for a touri...
Author: Kevin Lyons, Joanne Hanley & Tamara Young
Year: 2012
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195 |
Think Tank XIV
Implementation and Governance of Hotel Chain's CSR pol...
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33833 | Jun 26, 2014 |
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing importance in the tourism industry over the past two decades, making it a central aspect of many business strategies. Many international hotel corporations have integrated CSR polic...
Author: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher & Carolin Brewi
Year: 2014
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194 |
Think Tank VII
Tourist Perceptions of Environmentally Friendly Innova...
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24590 | Oct 13, 2013 |
As the environmental movement got underway and environmental awareness came into focus in the late 20th century, the tourism industry began incorporating 'environmentally friendly' efforts into their business practices. Requests for towel r...
Author: Kathleen L. Andereck
Year: 2007
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193 |
Think Tank XII
The Climate Footprint of Nature-based Tourism - The ca...
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20259 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Nature-based tourism is a form of travel that is often believed to lend itself more to sustainable development than other tourism segments. In fact, the concept of ecotourism – defined as nature tourism that is sustainable – was developed in...
Author: Wolfgang Strasdas
Year: 2012
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192 |
Think Tank XIII
Visitors' and Residents' Perception of Tourism Impact ...
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20045 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visi...
Author: Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed
Year: 2013
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191 |
Think Tank XIII
Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf...
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19078 | Nov 06, 2013 |
As the tourism industry continues to grow globally, sustainable tourism development has drawn interests among researchers, practitioners, governments and stakeholders. There are several studies on the local residents’ support for tourism, lo...
Author: Samuel Folorunso Adeyinka-Ojo, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Vikneswaran Nair
Year: 2013
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190 |
Think Tank XVIII
Deconstructing mass tourism with “upscale, all-year-ro...
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16925 | Jan 07, 2019 |
Key words: local residents, seasonality, mass tourism, sustainability, tourism development
Author: Tina Šegota
Year: 2018
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189 |
Think Tank X
Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy and Student Community Col...
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16711 | Oct 13, 2013 |
There have been increasing calls to move away from the traditional disciplinary structures and research, teaching and learning approaches that have tended to ‘tunnel’ student learning and reinforce particular worldviews towards new forms of ...
Author: Tazim Jamal, Justin Taillon & Dianne Dredge
Year: 2010
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188 |
Think Tank XI
Broad Street Regeneration Initiative: Practical Sustai...
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16485 | Dec 19, 2013 |
Professors of tourism management teach principles of sustainable tourism to students in the classroom. Practitioners teach by implementing sustainable tourism principles in community. The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (Tourism Council) i...
Author: Robert Billington, Natalie Carter, Caitlin Amos & Myles Ellison
Year: 2011
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187 |
Think Tank XII
Enhancing Stakeholders' Participation in Community-Bas...
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16256 | Nov 06, 2013 |
Although the iconic floating markets in Thailand have been promoted both domestically and internationally, without a well-planned tourism initiative, virtually all of them have lost their authenticity. To preserve the culture of the Don-Mano...
Author: Nopparat Suthitakon, Sombat Karnjanakit & Suchart Taweepornpathomgul
Year: 2012
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186 |
Think Tank XI
Education as a Visitor Management Technique in Remote ...
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16011 | Oct 14, 2013 |
Remote protected areas are often vulnerable to impacts by visitors. This is generally due to the dual implications of remoteness: a) the area's ecosystems remaining largely undisturbed by human activity (Carey, Dudley and Stolton, 2000) and...
Author: Christian Schott
Year: 2011
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